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I run a weblog about wikipedia. If you want me to write about a particular article/topic/concept/whatever, leave a note, or comment on a weblog post.

Cinnamon hummingbird

Various logos and graphics for wikipedia/wikimedia/wikimania.

Etc.

My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

Writing

So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

Nonfiction

How to appreciate jazz without really trying.
Sk8er Boi.
Understanding Comics.
File sharing is theft (read all the way through before you send me angry emails).
How to build a computer out of black holes.
Why is the sky blue?.
Does the Universe have granularity?.
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).

Fiction

Now I ask you, is that any way for a cosmic body to Disintegrate?.
LifeTM.
Schrodinger killed his cat.
On the Division of Labor.
The Sticker Underground .
Private Eye.



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Did you know...

Mawali tribal sheikhs, 1880s
Mawali tribal sheikhs, 1880s
  • ... that in the 18th century the Mawali tribe (pictured) was driven from the Syrian steppe to the regions of Hama and Idlib, where their descendants live today?
  • ... that a reviewer described Ceechynaa, who entered the UK singles chart earlier this month with "Peggy", as "proudly waving the sexual liberation flag"?
  • ... that vitamin E was named "tocopherol" as it was identified as essential for live births in rats?
  • ... that in the 1950s Michel Klein opened one of the first veterinary practices in Paris?
  • ... that the sexual onomatopoeia puff-puff was censored in English releases of Dragon Quest until Dragon Quest XI?
  • ... that newspaper publisher Jacob Frolich built trapdoors and hiding places in his house in case it was raided by Radical Republicans?
  • ... that nearly 300 construction workers showed up at 8 am to continue building Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6, despite the Chernobyl disaster earlier that day?
  • ... that war correspondent Bernard Gray was killed while travelling as an unofficial passenger aboard a Royal Navy submarine during the Second World War?
  • ... that Good Gravy!, a Thanksgiving dinner–themed roller coaster, was first tested with a train full of plush turkeys?